Does anyone else run into a really long lag when opening files on a file share? Like 30-60 seconds. Once it's open it works fine for me, but the first time I access network resources it's usually got that horrible lag. I don't think it's my network or computer, it only happens with FPV. Any other picture viewers work fine. In fact, when it first happens, often just switch viewers to open the file.

It''s a bit annoying, so I'd like to resolve it if I can. Any ideas?Thanks!

No such issue here: we have all kinds of networked machines, desktops, servers, laptops, tablet PC, wired or wirelessly connected (all running some version of Windows) and network performance is within expectations. You should contact support @ fastpictureviewer.com with more details and we'll try to figure out what's going on.

I came here just to post this same issue and noticed this.... Exactly the same issue...

Latest FPV, Win7, all latest SPs, remote machine is win 2008 server. No other apps opening the same files across the network have the issue - just FPV. It's VERY frustrating. It hasn't always done it, but it probably has for 3-4 months.

We recently introduced real-time folder watching also for remote drives (this feature only worked on local drives previously) and it could be that this change is causing problems in some network environments.

We never actually seen or reproduced the issue here, but it was indeed reported a couple of times here so the current build introduces a REG_DWORD registry setting to be added to the program options under HKCU\Software\ARSD\FastPictureViewer, named DisableFolderWatchingOnAllRemoteDrives, that can be set to 1 to disables the feature.

A couple of small registry scripts that disable/enable remote folder monitoring are attached to this post.

i had the same problem on my machines, it woulnd even open anything and just stopped working. couldn´t even kill it with the task-manager. disabling folder wotaching did the trick, works like a charme now